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 WASHINGTON (AP) - In the thick of a pennant race, the New York Mets are sticking to quite a formula: poor fielding plus poor pitching equals defeat after defeat.
The Mets dropped their fourth consecutive game Monday night, making four more errors and wasting Carlos Beltran's 30th homer in a 12-4 loss to the Washington Nationals.
Add in their six miscues Sunday, and the Mets set a franchise record with 10 errors over two games. They never had more than eight Es over two games, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Heck, even Casey Stengel's woeful '62 Mets never had a fielding fiasco of this magnitude.
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